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Embracing sexual commodification is not a path to freedom – it is instead a rigged game, a cultural con manipulating girls and women into giving men and boys free sex work, and to call doing so "empowering." Raunch culture is a cruel form of gaslighting keeping girls and women preoccupied with the male gaze. As Britney's story illustrates, pornification is simply another tool keeping girls and women under the thumb of patriarchy.

I cannot count the number of times I have heard/read/seen young women equate pornification with "reclaiming their body," like Britney did as teen, and continues to do as a 39-year old woman. It's immensely challenging to sensitively engage with these claims.  On the one hand, I want women and girls to be free, and wear whatever they like, and be as sexy as they please.  Further, individually, it's not my business what anyone else does with their body, and I don't particularly care how naked anyone is. On the other hand, letting that be the end of the conversation allows patriarchy to run amok defining "sexual freedom" as a monotonous performance for the male gaze that perpetuates gender inequality.

On the contrary, we live in a culture so hell-bent on de-aging women into prepubescent girls. But also so dead set on molding naive, sexless girls into sexpot pornified women.

It was not sexual, but sexual, too. Like life. It was life!

He then explained to me what a Tahitian drink should be like, could be like, and I explained to him that we don’t really notice these kinds of details. We are not concerned with presentation, and we don’t savor. The idea is to get drunk. “But why?” he asked. I shrugged. There is no real answer to that question—about anything in America—except to ask back: Why not?

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